Dust-guard for car-axles



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W. S. SOULE.

DUST GUARD FOB, GAR AXLBS. Y No. 381,591. Pat'entedApr. 24, 1888.

UNITED STATES AATeNT @tripel WILLIAM S. SOIIE, OF CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS.

DUST-GUARD FOR CARQAXLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,591, datedApi-i124, 1888.

Application tiled January 3l, 1888. Serial NofQGQA'IS.

To @ZZ whom it muy concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. SOULE, a

citizen ofthe United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Dust-Guards for Gar-Axles; and I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact. description of the invention,such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains tomalte and use the same, reference being had to the accoinpanyingdrawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Figure l represents a longitudinal and vertical section of a railwaycaraxle-box and an elevation of a portion of a car-axle having a dustguardmade in accordance with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of the said guard. Fig. 1l-isaside viewot one of the ring-sections.

The object of my invention is to provide a dust-guard for car-axlespossessing wearing qualities equal to any now or heretol'orein use, andthat can be manufactured at less cost than any previously made.

The body A of my improved d nst'guard consisis ofa piece of Wood orother suitable material made to the required shape and thick ness toenter and properly t to the groove a, formed to receive it in the innerend of the axle-box B. Said body is provided with a circular opening, b,extended through it to receive the car-axle; and leading out of saidcircular opening and concentric therewith is a rahbet, c, in which isarranged an annulus, C,

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of rawhide, made in quarter sections d, each section being secured insaid rabbet and tothe body by nails, screws, or rivets e, asrepresented, or otherwise. The holes in each section to receive thenails, screws, or rivets are punched at the time that the'dic cuts thesection from the piece of hide. By forming the ring or an nulus insections, as described, a side of rawhide can be cut up into saidsections with little,it` any,waste, which results in a great saving inthe rawhide over the mode of t'orming the annulus in one entire piecethereof, thus causing much Waste of the rawhide, which is a veryexpensive material.

A dust-guard made as hereinbefore described is equally as good as onehaving a rawhide annulus made in one entire ring, and can bemanufactured at much less cost, as there is little, if any, waste ofmaterial.

Therefore I claim as of my invention- A dust-guard for car'axlcs baviugabody of wood or othersuitable material provided with a circular openingto receive the car axle,said body being,` provided with arabbet leadingout of said circular opening and having a rawhide ring made in sectionsto fit to said axle, secured in said rabbet and to the body, as described, all being arranged with the axle-box and for use substantiallyas set forth and represented.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence ol two Witnesses.

WIWI. S. SOULE.

lVit-uesses:

S. N. PIPER, C. F. DaNIELs.

